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Using the textbook, lectures, and other course materials, trace the role of slavery in the buildup to the Civil War starting with the aftermath of the American Revolution.

By DanielPosted on July 17, 2021Posted in HistoryTagged assignmenthelp, Civil War, collegeessays, essayhelp, Free-Soil Movement, Fugitive Slave Laws

As the textbook states on page 482: “However much [Confederate President] Jefferson Davis and other southerners argued that succession and the war were about states’ rights, the states of the Lower South seceded in 1860-1861 primarily to preserve slavery. The South Carolina Declaration on the Immediate Causes of Secession explains that the state left the […]